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Content note: This post discusses late-diagnosed ADHD, self-doubt and medication. At 41, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Even writing those words feels surreal. If someone had suggested this to me a few years ago, I probably would have laughed. Not because I didn't believe ADHD existed, but because I never imagined it could describe me. Ironically, I also carried many of the same misconceptions that stopped me from recognising it in myself. I thought ADHD was something diagno

(see below for English translation) 唯有读书高？ 近期我看到一则让我啼笑皆非的新闻。新闻内容是，中国上海的一家医院最近新开了一个门诊，专门评估和帮助有空间与数学学习困难的孩子。在询问者中，有一位2岁儿童的家长要求进行评估。结果，当然...

As parents, the assumption lies in we all want our children to thrive, regardless of cultural origins. For families raising...

Look, it was my fault to begin with. I didn’t want this reunion, but my big mouth opened and I saw myself in slow motion reciting those...

And by complex, I don’t necessarily just refer to dysfunction and trauma… My childhood experiences feel all too common yet at the same...

We are all increasingly aware of cultural competence and culturally-informed practices . Many psychologists and allied health...

Growing up Indian, being called spicy never felt like a compliment. It wasn’t playful nor was it endearing. It was a warning. Passed between aunties and uncles, teachers and neighbours, wrapped in a laugh but really, never quite funny, but a joke we were meant to endure nonetheless. Spiciness, in our context, was often linked to the chilli padi, the tiny, potent seed of the chilli. Small, but deadly. It referred to a temper. A sharpness around girls who spoke too quickly,

ID: Sharon, a brown-skinned individual of Southern Indian descent with short black curly hair, stands in medical scrubs in front of a...

I lived in a system where compliance was expected. Keep your head down, follow the rules, don’t rock the boat. Where girls were meant...

I grew up knowing how to be good. Good daughter. Good student. Good friend. Good girl. The kind of good that blends in. That keeps the...

For many Asian families, the concept of being neurodiversity-affirming is still unfamiliar, inaccessible, or even in direct conflict with cultural narratives around disability and difference. We're not 'behind' the West but.... we are different and the way we need to conceptualise support for Asian populations has to be different too. We risk perpetuating the harm that has been done to our autism and ADHD community when looking at their support through a neurotypical lens whe